Hello guys,
I’m looking for a music player, I have checked some wikis but none of those give me their personal opinion of the music players thus I would like to know your experience. Currently I am using musikcube as I just though it would look since since it can use your terminal colorscheme and I have also used Cue.
Anyway, what music player would you recommend for someone who has thousands of songs and wishes to create playlists seamlessly. Thanks in advance
No one commenting on your playlist? You’re cathartic music experience is showing :)
oh man, that not even my “Today I’m feeling overwhelmed by my emotions so I cue my emotional playlist till I figure out a rational plan” But thanks anyway :)
I’m using Clementine for now it has nice management features, it’s overall pretty great. Only downside is that some minor gestures are broken and the UI is not really pretty ’
yep, it does not have the looks. hehe, seems alright to me though.
I would personally recommend Strawberry if anything since development of Clementine has been dead for a long while now, whilst it’s also of fork of Clementine too with frequent updates.
Oohhh i’ll surely check this out ! Thanks ! (I prefer strawberrys to Clementines anyway)
Probably a bit late, but I really like Quod Libet. It is very extensible, runs light, has excellent tagging and filtering, and just feels similar enough to how I set up my foobar2000.
I don’t have any suggestions for you, sorry. Now-a-days I just use Spotify or YouTube and stream stuff, then download the songs I really like, for offline play on my phone. I just wanted to comment on how much I miss the late 90’s early 2000’s era of WinAmp and having a real music collection. Sharing music with friends on CD’s, then eventually USB hard drives. Sadly way more fun than limitless access to anything you could want, on the internet.
Also shout out to GRiZ in your music list. That dude is absolutely fantastic, I love all of his stuff.
Hehe thanks. I download huge playlists and then listen to them offline because hate to wait for music to play, specially on Holidays. I recommend SimpMusic for you, lets you use Youtube Music privately with no ads and download music with no restrictions. As for how I download my music… my lawyer told me no to answer that.
I was born in 1996 but I feel you man, we used to share music with Infrared on those SonyEricssons and Nokias and then bluetooth.I was born in 1996 but I feel you man
JFC, how to make me feel old AF, 1966 here .
I don’t stream anything.
You are younger than you think, my parents were born 63’/64’ and would never be on a forum talking about music players. :) On a Linux forum at that.
piracy is encouraged on the fediverse (except for .world cause they’re nerds). it’s ok to say you pirate your music, say it loud and proud
aye aye captain!
Same, I just use Spotify, or Plexamp for anything on my own server.
Lollypop, it’s a bit dated in terms of design for a GNOME app but it has all the features you could want. Can’t comment on playlists though, I have never used playlists and honestly don’t get the point of them.
I was like you, did not get the point of playlists until I got into techno and some other genres that most people would consider “trashy”. Plus there are some collections of Movies/Games that fit nice into a playlist. Anyway, thanks for the recommendation, I will check it now :) .
i like cmus.
You might want to have a look at https://beets.io
Seems like it could be useful for managing huge libraries
Yeah that’s what it’s for. And generating playlists and what not. Won’t solve you player question per say, but it sounds like what you’re looking for still.
It’s been downhill since winamp (UI wise).
You can still use Winamp skins on Audacious, like me.
I don’t know why but this made me want to play that Windows pinball game like the old times
That space pinball game thing? It’s available on Linux, I saw it in the AUR a few months ago.
god bless the AUR
Its also on Flathub. I think it is a WINE wrapper
It was reimplemented a couple of years ago - don’t have a link to hand but it’s on GitHub - so it’s likely to be native.
This is what a NAS + Plex/Jellyfin is for.
uhg plex? no way. i cant imagine any self hosters choosing plex
Jellyfin, i own my streaming
I use Strawberry personally.
The website is quite tight-lipped regarding features. What’s a ‘smart playlist’?
You can set certain filters and it will automatically fill the playlist with tracks matching those filters. For example I have a smart playlist set to contain all tracks that I rated 3 stars or higher.
There are some canned choices like “50 newest tracks”.
If there’s any other Cantata enjoyers reading this thread while feeling sad that it’s not maintained anymore, Strawberry is the closest alternative.
I’d been using Cantata for many years but recently switched to Strawberry. It’s pretty good, the dynamic playlist feature is the closest I have found to cantata’s though it still behaves a bit differently in details which is a bit annoying :/
I too have noticed a number of minor behavioral differences that I’ve found annoying, but it is what it is. This was the closest I could find to an active fork of Cantata, but nothing has been released at this time, though the dev has expressed interest in a Qt6 port.
I started using fooyin recently, and it’s good enough to have replaced running foobar2000 in WINE for me.
What is the appeal, I understand fb2k was the shit back in the days. But nowadays I want a music player with elegant defaults instead of customization?
Different strokes. If I preferred using software that was just good enough out of the box over something I can customize to my exact liking then I probably wouldn’t be using Linux in the first place, or at least not the way I do in general.
Beyond that, having it be customizable means other people can change it to their liking and share that configuration, and maybe I’d experiment with it and find something I didn’t even know I wanted.
oh, Its in the AUR… nice!!
If you use a DAC, I can recommend Strawberry for the USB to DAC support.
What does strawberry different in such case?
I found QMMP few years ago. As a fan of Winamp, I haven’t looked back yet. QMMP is compatible with Winamp skins too.
That is nice, tyvm!
Wow I forgot I once made a DragonBall Z skin for winamp. It’s still there :D Blast from the past!!
I’m a huge fan of LMS (Lyrion Music Server, formerly Logitech Media Server, formerly Slimserver, formerly…)
Fantastic piece of software. The server can run on a first gen Raspberry Pi and handle 100k+ tracks like it’s nobody’s business
Plex and plexamp are quite good. Jellyfin and finamp too.
Jellyfin has mobile and desktop clients.
For me for a long time it was a coin toss between Plex and Jellyfin.
For some long forgotten reason I ended with Emby and eventually migrated to Jellyfin as its true free open source fork.
With jellyfin DLNA server i can play same music on Apple TV, etc. although DLNA clients are certainly not as nice as native apps. One can offset problem with playlists.
Both have quick start wiki pages like this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Jellyfin
Official documentation: https://jellyfin.org/docs/
